Patient-centered care, collaboration, communication, and coordination: a report from AMIA's 2013 Policy Meeting

Patti Flatley Brennan; Rupa Valdez; Greg Alexander; Shifali Arora; Elmer V Bernstam; Margo Edmunds; Nikolai Kirienko; Ross D Martin; Ida Sim; Diane Skiba; Trent Rosenbloom

doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003176

Patient-centered care, collaboration, communication, and coordination: a report from AMIA's 2013 Policy Meeting

J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Apr;22(e1):e2-6. doi: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003176. Epub 2014 Oct 30.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
² University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
³ University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
⁴ Rush University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
⁵ University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
⁶ AcademyHealth, Washington, DC, USA.
⁷ Chronology.MD, San Francisco, California, USA.
⁸ American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
⁹ University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
¹⁰ University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA.
¹¹ Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

PMID: 25359545
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-003176

Abstract

In alignment with a major shift toward patient-centered care as the model for improving care in our health system, informatics is transforming patient-provider relationships and overall care delivery. AMIA's 2013 Health Policy Invitational was focused on examining existing challenges surrounding full engagement of the patient and crafting a research agenda and policy framework encouraging the use of informatics solutions to achieve this goal. The group tackled this challenge from educational, technical, and research perspectives. Recommendations include the need for consumer education regarding rights to data access, the need for consumers to access their health information in real time, and further research on effective methods to engage patients. This paper summarizes the meeting as well as the research agenda and policy recommendations prioritized among the invited experts and stakeholders.

Keywords: data privacy; health information technology; health policy; patient engagement; patient-centered care.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Communication
Cooperative Behavior
Electronic Health Records*
Health Policy*
Humans
Patient Access to Records*
Patient-Centered Care*
Societies, Medical
United States

Grants and funding

R13 HS 1R13HS021825-01/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States